Display-cabinet.



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WTTED TATE PATENT @PTFTQE.

EDWARD REUKAUF, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB T0 MEYER BAYUK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DISPLAY-CABINET.

Application filed December 8, 1914;.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EDWARD REUKAUF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Display-Cabinets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object to produce a combination display cabinet for individual cigar boxes and which may be also used, if desired, as a humidor.

The invention comprises novel means for gaining access to the cabinet to permit of the ready insertion and removal of the box, as well as other novel general features and specific details of construction.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cabinet; Fig. 2 a front elevation; and Fig. 3 a

vertical cross-section.

The cabinet comprises generally the lower box receiving chamber a. and the upper boxlid receiving chamber 6. In the preferred construction shown, the cabinet approximates the shape in cross-section of a rightangled triangle, the two chambers a and b merging one into the other to form a unitary triangular-shaped receptacle for the entire cigar box.

The skeleton of the cabinet comprises a metal frame-work affording a means of sustaining the solid metal back wall 6, the end walls f of glass, the bottom 7 also preferably of glass, the front glass wall (Z of the upper chamber 6, and the glass lid or cover 0 adapted to form the main closure for the front of the lower chamber a.

The lid 0 is hinged at 0 to the lower edge of the frame of wall (l and is provided with a handle 0 by which the lid may be lifted on its hinged support and swung against the stationary front wall (Z. The lid is of less height than that of the open front of the lower chamber a. Hinged upon a horizontal axis at the front edge of the base of the frame is a supplemental closure it having an inwardly extending flange h.

The frame of one of the transparent end walls f is hinged at 7" along one of the vertical edges of the frame of the rear wall.

Specification of Letters 1*atent.

Patented Jan. 25, 31916.

SerialNo. 876,007.

The bottom 9 is hinged at 9 along the lower edge of the frame of the rear wall.

Along the floor of the cabinet extends stop or rest i adapted to receive the lower front edge of cigar-box. On the inside of the rear wall 6 of the cabinet are secured springs j. A moistening device 70 may be secured, as shown, to the inside of the lower portion of the rear wall of the cabinet. The box may be entered into the cabinet in different ways. Thus I may proceed by swinging up the lid or cover 0 against the stationary front wall d where it rests by gravity. The front closure 71. is then swung outward and downward, thus affording ample room for the insertion of the box from the front. The box is positioned so that its lower front edge is received in the rest 2', while its lower rear edge is pressed by the springs j to hold the box in the position illustrated. The upper portion of the front wall of the box rests on the flange h of the closure 71,. The lid 0 is then swung down into its closing position. When the box is thus positioned in the cabinet, the labeled face of the lid. the ends of the box, and the cigars, will all be exposed to view. A customer or the salesman may readily remove a cigar by lifting up the lid.

Instead of inserting the box from the front, as just described, the hinged end 7 of the cabinet may be swung open and the box, with its lid held open at the angle which it is to assume in the cabinet, may he slid into the cabinet endwise. Again, the cabinet may be lifted, the bottom 9 may be swung open, and the box may be entered through the open bottom, the lid immediately being closed to hold the box in position.

While I prefer to make the cabinet as shown, so as to provide several different ways of inserting and withdrawing the contained boxes, it will be understood that only one of the described closures need be embodied in the construction of the cabinet.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. A cabinet comprising a rear wall, end walls and front walls, forming an upper lidreceiving portion and a lower box-receiving portion in open inter-communication, the front walls comprising three sections, the upper section adapted to overlie the lid, the intermediate section adapted to overlie the bottom, whereby the intermediate and lower sections may be swung away from their normal closed positlonsto permit the box and lid to be inserted in the cabinet while opening only the intermediate section allows access to the contents of the box.

2. A cabinet comprising a relatively narrow bottom a relatively high back wall and an upright but somewhat rearwardly inclined front, the latter comprising a fixed wall above and a movable cover below, and a. box-engaging rest located between and spaced from the front and rear of the bottom and adapted to engage the lower front edge of the contained box.

3. A cabinet comprising a relatively narrow bottom, a relatively high back wall and an upright but somewhat rearwardly inclined front, the latter comprising a fixed wall above and a movable cover below, a box-engaging rest located between the front and rear of the bottom for engagement with the lower front edge of the contained box, and springs on the inside of the back wall adapted to engage the lower rear edge of the contained box.

4:. A cabinet comprising a relatively narrow bottom, a relatively high back wall and an upright but somewhat rearwardly inclined front, the latter comprising a fixed wall above and a movable cover below, and a closure hinged along the front of the base of the cabinet provided with an inwardly extending flange at its freeend.

5. A cabinet comprising a lower box-receiving chamber and communicating therewith an upper lid-receiving chamber, an upright wall closing the rear of both chambers, a transparent stationary wall closing the front of the lid-receiving chamber, a transparent movable cover forrthe boxreceiving chamber adapted to overlie the contents of the contained box and through which access may be had to such contents, and an end closure the rear edge of which extends along the upright edge of the rear wall and the front edge of which extends along one edge of the fixed front wall of the lid receiving chamber and along one edge of the movable cover of the box receiving chamber, said closure beingmovable to permit the insertion or removal in an endwise direction of the box and lid into or from the respective chambers.

6. A cabinet comprising a lower box-receiving chamber and communicating therewith an upper lid-receiving chamber, an upright wall closing the rear of botlrchambers, a transparent stationary wall closing the front of the lid-receiving chamber, a transparent movable cover for the box-receiving chamber adapted tooverlie the contents of the contained box, and a bottom wall extend ing from the rear wall to the front of the box receiving chamber and adapted to close the same underneath and movable to permit the box and lid to be inserted or removed through the open bottom of the box receiving chamber.

In testimony of which invention, I have.

hereunto set my hand, atPhiladelphia, Pal, on this 3rd day of December, 19H.

EDWARD REUKAUF.

Witnesses:

. M. M. HAMILTON,

E. E. VALL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' VtTashington,- D. C. 

